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Finster Baby |
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October 10, 2012 06:46:21am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Looking for some political fire |
both the dems and the reps love that you, and millions of others, feel this way.
Lets them know that what ever slop they run out there, people will vote for it out of fear of "wasting" their vote on a 3rd party candidate.
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snow_and_rain |
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October 10, 2012 07:12:52am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Looking for some political fire |
Oh? And just who will you be wasting your vote on this year? Gary "I-won't-take-drones-off-the-table" Johnson? Good luck with that. I used to think the Greens could do it, but I'm not so sure anymore. The system we have is stacked against them. If you want third parties, you'll need to change the system first.
But let's assume for a minute that the system was more amenable to third parties. Even in that case, third parties that do nothing but field weak presidential candidates with no policy ideas and who have no plan for how they would actually govern the country do not interest me. The only way to create a lasting third party movement in this country is to grow it from the ground up. Even the Tea Party -- the closest thing we've had to a TP in recent memory -- basically had no platform except to eliminate all government revenue. Good luck running the show without any money! And even those "ideas" (if you can call them that) have pretty much been absorbed by the Republican Party.
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unclejohn52 |
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October 10, 2012 07:45:14am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Looking for some political fire |
"The only way to create a lasting third party movement in this country is to grow it from the ground up." A difficult achievement, but I agree - the only route here is for the people to rise up and assert their need for a change in the process.
In addition to the limitations to the Tea Party that you noted - I have a real issue with their agenda, the shady "corporate" support, and a barely disguised, ugly racial undertone... tendrils of these issues are interwoven with the Repub party.
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Edsel |
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October 10, 2012 09:18:53am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Looking for some political fire |
horse shit, all the ugly racial undertones were coming from liberals accusing them of having racial undertones. I'm no member of the TP, so don't even try to go there.
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Mandojammer |
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October 10, 2012 10:09:33am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Looking for some political fire - adding more fuel |
Whether shit floats or sinks, it's still shit and it still stinks the same.
http://gopcapitalist.tripod.com/democratrecord.htmlRobert Byrd or Thomas Sowell?
Yeah, I know, make your sample group small enough and you can prove anything you want to.
Blatant racism exists in both mainstream parties. the Tea Party is no exception, but it is not as widespread as the media would have you believe.
But someone, anyone, please explain to me how Senator Robert Fucking Byrd, D-WV, self-admitted KKK Kleagle, and the party that embraced him as the "conscience of the Senate" got a pass from the media?
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Mandojammer |
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October 10, 2012 11:07:10am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Looking for some political fire - adding more fuel |
I would need to see the raw data used in the sample set to assess whether or not the two studies could stand up to real academic scrutiny.
My Occam's Razor gut tells me that right or left, the media presents what it wants to, regardless of the facts.
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Edsel |
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October 10, 2012 11:57:50am |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Looking for some political fire - adding more fuel |
"They want to put ya'll back in chains".
Racism and fear mongering at its finest.
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